Bugle-horn

[f. BUGLE sb.¹ + HORN sb.] The horn of a bugle or wild ox, used

  † a.  as a drinking vessel. Obs.

c. 1386.  Chaucer, Frankl. T., 525. Ianus … drynketh of his bugle horn the uyn.

1387.  Trevisa, Higden, Rolls Ser. I. 293. Ȝif þe water of þat welle is i-take in bugle horn [in cornu bubali].

1519.  Horman, Vulg., 166 b. Preciouse cuppis be made of bugull hornys.

  b.  as a musical instrument, whence = BUGLE sb.¹ 2.

c. 1300.  K. Alis., 5282. Tweye bugle hornes, and a bowe also.

1480.  Caxton, Chron. Eng., ccix. 192. Two squyers blewe … with ij grete bugles hornes.

c. 1630.  Risdon, Surv. Devon, § 222 (1810), 231. His family bare in a field Gules, a bugle horn or.

1808.  Scott, Marm., I. iii. His bugle-horn he blew.

1842.  Tennyson, Locksley H., 2. Sound upon the bugle horn.